Heeheehee heeheehee. Watch this, Beavis...
A Sandy man took offense to a motorist, who, after getting him to roll down his window, asked, "Excuse me, sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?" Heeheehee heeheehee... After hearing the request for Dijon mustard, the 22-year-old driver pulled a black handgun from his glove compartment, cocked the weapon and pointed it at the three people in the other car. "Here's your Grey Poupon, roll your [expletive] windows up," he responded. Oooookay. I guess you don't... Peasant ...
The confrontation happened June 18 at the intersection of 900 East and Winchester Street (6500 South) in Murray, court documents state. One of the three people in the car wrote down the SUV's license plate number. Murray police later located the man, who admitted to an officer that he pulled out the gun, racked the slide and threaten the other car. He was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony. Believe it or not, officer, that was the third time that day some punk kid pulled that shit on me. Swear to god...
A plague of parakeets have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to a church - after pecking away at the wooden spire. This is real, not a parrot-dy
Congregation members revealed this week that the brightly-coloured vandals had started nesting in the 150-year-old spire of St John the Evangelist, Shirley, which has been blighted by hundreds of beak-sized holes. "It ruined the polly-urethane finish."
Church spokesman Bernard Maguire, 67, said: "They showed up last winter, and have been pecking away ever since. We enjoyed them at first, they were quite pretty, but then we realised what they were up to and now the novelty has definitely worn off." "We'd repair the damage, but we don't have enough in the budgie to cover it."
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News For Parrots is pleased to report that these are rouge parakeets and NO parrots were involved.
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There are millions of the little buggers in Eastern Australia, but for some reason here in the West we don't have any small parrots. Plenty of the big ones (Cockatoos) though.
LOWELL, MA The Lowell Spinners, Class A affiliate of the World Series Champion Boston Red Sox, announced today that this weeks upcoming homestand against the State College Spikes, a Pittsburgh Pirates affiliate, will salute both the sensitive nature of political correctness and incorrectness.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 Political Correctness Night at LeLacheur Park. Returning for a second season, the Spinners will take measures to make sure nobodyincluding the playersleaves the ballpark offended. Players committing an error will not be identified for fear of hurting their feelings, and gender-neutral terms will be used to refer to the players, for example first baseperson instead of first baseman. Along the same lines, there will be no bat boy, but instead a bat person. Additionally the Spinners will make every effort to not demean anyone, referring to the shortstop as the vertically-challenged stop. In addition, bases will not be identified as first, second, or third, and will be treated equally without numerical ranking, the foul lines will be identified as fair lines and instead of having one fan of the game, every fan will be recognized as Fan of the Game. Finally, trophies will be handed out to each participant in between-innings promotions, which will be evenly matched for Title IX purposes, because there are no losers and everyone is a winner, where the contests will be evenly matched among genders for Title IX purposes. Lastly, the Spinners will be paying added attention to Going Green on Political Correctness night, encouraging fans to recycle and promoting carpooling and public transportation to the game, as well as a salute to Hybrids. For the July 23 game the first 250 fans, male or female, in attendance will receive Lowell Spinners potholders. Conversely, the following evening, only the first 250 females will receive the potholder.
THURSDAY, JULY 24 Political Incorrectness Night at LeLacheur Park. One night after paying homage to the overly sensitive nature of being politically correct, the Spinners will go incorrect for the night. In addition to publicly identifying those players who commit errors, the Spinners will for one night create Men Only entrances to the ballpark and allowing only men to participate in the between-innings promotions. Furthermore, the first 250 women in attendance will receive pink Lowell Spinners potholders to use in kitchen while preparing dinner for their husbands. As a result, only females will take orders at the two main concession stands.The Spinners are also happy to provide napping areas for any senior citizens who feel the need to rest their eyes during the game. Cot stations will be set up on the concourse, available to any fans over the age of 60. The Spinners will continue their salute to the incorrect, offering complimentary gas cards to fans to encourage them to use as much gas as possible, including encouraging families to drive to the game separately. A tribute to gas guzzlers will include needlessly driving vehicles during each between-inning break.
The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say. Must be caused by "Climate Change".
Is Al Gore in Anchorage right now?
Right now the so-called summer of '08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees. That unhappy record was set in 1970, when we only made it to the 65-degree mark, which many Alaskans consider a nice temperature, 16 days out of 365.
This year, however -- with the summer more than half over -- there have been only seven 65-degree days so far. And that's with just a month of potential "balmy" days remaining and the forecast looking gloomy.
National Weather Service meteorologist Sam Albanese, a storm warning coordinator for Alaska, says the outlook is for Anchorage to remain cool and cloudy through the rest of July. "There's no real warm feature moving in," Albanese said. "And that's just been the pattern we've been stuck in for a couple weeks now."
In the Matanuska Valley on Wednesday snow dusted the Chugach. On the Kenai Peninsula, rain was raising Six-Mile River to flood levels and rafting trips had to be canceled.
So if the cold and drizzle are going to continue anyway, why not shoot for a record? The mark is well within reach, Albanese said: "It's probably going to go down as the summer with the least number of 65-degree days."
In terms of "coldest summer ever," however, a better measure might be the number of days Anchorage fails to even reach 60. There too, 2008 is a contender, having so far notched only 35 such days -- far below the summer-long average of 88.
Unless we get 10 more days of 60-degree or warmer temperatures, we're going to break the dismal 1971 record of only 46 such days, a possibility too awful to contemplate.
Still, according to a series of charts cobbled together Tuesday evening by a night-shift meteorologist in the weather service's Anchorage office, the current summer clearly has broken company with the record-setting warmth of recent years. Consider:
70-degree days. So far this summer there have been two. Usually there are 15. Last year there were 21. In 2004 there were 49.
75-degree days. So far this summer there've been zero. Usually there are four. It may be hard to remember, but last year there were 21. In 2004 there were 23.
So are all bets off on global warming? Hardly, scientists say. Climate change is a function of long-term trends, not single summers or individual hurricanes. Last year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that it's "unequivocal" the world is warming, considering how 11 of the warmest years on record have occurred in the past 13 years.
So what's going on in Alaska, which also posted a fairly frigid winter? Federal meteorologists trace a lot of the cool weather to ocean temperatures in the South Pacific. When the seas off the coast of Peru are 2 to 4 degrees cooler than normal, a La Nina weather pattern develops, which brings cooler-than- normal weather to Alaska.
For most of the past year, La Nina (the opposite of El Nino, in which warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures occur off Peru) has prevailed. But that's now beginning to change. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Web site, water temperatures in the eastern South Pacific began to warm this summer -- and the weather should eventually follow.
The current three-month outlook posted by the national Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md., calls for below-normal temperatures for the south coast of Alaska from August through October -- turning to above-normal temperatures from October through December.
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Are there still people who pretend to care about AGW? Over here (UK) the government finally realised that nobody believed a word of it, so they invented a couple of other scare stories instead: knife crime and childhood obesity. AGW is now buried next to flared trousers in the Remembrance Garden of Silly Ideas.
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come to think of it, Alaska Paul hasn't been posting much. Too frozen to type? We ask, you decide
/Commodore Frank
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I live at the 1700 ft level in the mountains north of Anchorage. Typical night time temps are 38F to 42F, and daytime temps are in the 50s to low 60s. Snow on the 5500 foot level in the mountains Wednesday. Some global warming, heh.
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Rumors of my demise by extreme hypothermia are greatly exaggerated......
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It has been colder than usual here. And drier too. Some global warming.
Twenty-three people were wounded when a gang of 40-50 men armed with steel bars and machetes attacked residents at a refugee centre in Norway late on Thursday, officials said on Friday. No one was seriously wounded, but 10 were sent to hospital and 13 treated at a local clinic, hospital officials said.
An official at the centre in Oestfold south of Oslo said the attackers were Chechens and the victims Kurds. Police declined to confirm or deny that and said they had made no arrests so far.
"There was an attack from outside the asylum centre by people who don't live here, Chechens, 40 to 50 men armed with steel bars and other weapons," Ole Morten Lyng, an official at the centre, told NRK public radio news. "There also seem to have been knives involved," Lyng said. "They went into the rooms and pulled out Kurds and beat them up."
A police officer said some of the attackers had machetes.
Lyng told Norwegian news agency NTB that the conflict stemmed from a minor dispute between Kurds and Chechens at the centre that got blown out of proportion.
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Why are there gangs of Chechens roaming the streets in Norway?
Health officials on Thursday confirmed a fresh case of polio in an eight-month-old boy in Karachi. This is the third case of crippling type P1 polio in the country this month. The two earlier cases were detected in Swat valley, where unrest has prevented regular vaccination. The latest detection of polio in a middle class central Karachi neighbourhood has stunned authorities that have convened a special meeting on Friday to discuss ways to contain the disease. "I can confirm detection of type P1 polio virus in an eight-month-old boy in Sadar town," Dr Mazhar Khamisani, project director for Expanded Programme on Immunisation, told AFP. He said that samples were taken from the child on June 10 and sent to the National Institute of Health in Islamabad, adding that the virus was not detected, after which a sample was sent to a World Health Organisation lab in Geneva. "We got the confirmation from WHO Geneva today," Dr Khamisani said, adding that initial investigations showed that the child, who is alive, was regularly vaccinated. The total number of polio cases in Pakistan this year is now 18, officials said. The World Health Organisation recently listed Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan as the only countries in the world where polio is endemic.
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The rumor of pork residue in Polio Vaccines has polluted the muslim rat-holes for decades. Doctors and nurses have been murdered for the Sharia offense of vaccination. Too bad that children are victims of the islamutts.
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Saline can only be used if one or more of the health officials is complicit. If there is dilution or theft of the vaccine it is tempting that the guilty be given to the family (that should go along with the tenets of sharia) but I do believe in the rule of law...
Interesting take on 2009 oil prices
Oil prices will continue falling and dip below $100 a barrel by the end of this year, unmasking an "export recession" in Canada that will result in anemic growth, a government export agency said on Thursday.
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Speculative investors have been behind much of the recent climb to record highs in oil prices, Hall said, but that behavior is now starting to unwind. When the U.S. dollar stops falling against the euro, speculators will abandon crude and prices will fall, averaging about $84 a barrel in 2009, he said.
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There could be new interest in Technology based stocks. Game Software companies are flourishing. Maybe we will have another 'nineties type of boom.
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I'd bet prices are well below $90 per barrel in '09 cause there will be a deep recession. Who ever gets in is going to wring the speculative fever out of the economy and blame it on Bush preparing for a big recovery in '10.
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NEW YORK - Oil prices sank to their lowest point in weeks Friday as investors questioned whether crude has cooled enough to reflect a serious deterioration in demand. Prices at the pump eased to nearly $4 a gallon and the AAA auto club said that could drop another quarter by Labor Day.
Light, sweet crude for September delivery fell $1.60 to $123.89 a barrel in on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier the contract dropped as far as $122.50, its lowest point since June 5.
In another sign that Americans continue to struggle with soaring energy prices, filling station operators hungry for business ratcheted down the average price for a gallon of regular by 2 cents, according to auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express.
AAA spokesman Geoff Sundstrom said such a large decline indicates a deteriorating demand by the world's thirstiest oil consumer. Retail prices have fallen about a dime per gallon in just the past week
A gallon of gas now sells for $4.006, the first time it has been that low in nearly seven weeks. Diesel dropped nearly a penny and a half to $4.774 a gallon. Sundstrom said prices at the pump should slip below the $4 mark over the weekend and could drop by at least another 25 cents by Labor Day, if oil stays on its downward path.
By afternoon Friday, crude was down nearly 16 percent from its peak above $147 a barrel two weeks earlier. Still, prices remained about 65 percent higher than they were this time last year.
In other Nymex trading, heating oil futures fell 2.18 cents to $3.5453 a gallon while gasoline futures lost 2.54 cents to $3.034 a gallon. Natural gas prices sank 15.3 cents to $9.17 per 1,000 cubic feet. In London, September Brent crude fell $1.46 to $125 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
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$4.17 a gallon for regular in Will County, IL this morning. It was $4.31 two weeks ago.
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Economists seem to think that gasoline demand is inelastic. Some of it is but most is not. Free markets work. I'm willing to bet that when the Chevy Volt comes out it's the highest selling auto in the history of mankind. I'd gladly shell out $40K for one just to think that every time I drove it I was keeping money away from the ME oil ticks.
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every time I drove it I was keeping money away from the ME oil ticks.
You won't be. You'll be keeping money away from Americans, Canadians, Saudis, Mexicans, Venezuelans and Nigerians. Not a lot of ME there. you'll just be making the price lower for the Chinese and Indians and Japanese and Europeans. They'll thank you.
And if the Volt sells, GM won't be able to meet demand.
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After reading several links from fellow rantburgers on the topic, it seems there is no shame for the penetrator in muslim society. Only penetratee need feel shame over the act. It didn't really work out for him this time though. He's going to be the penetratee for the next 15 years if there is any justice left in this country.
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Why would we ever want to allow another Muslim to immigrate to the U.S.? This bastard, along with all the rest of his co-religionists, should be forcibly deported and their mosques bulldozed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say. 
Health officials on Thursday confirmed a fresh case of polio in an eight-month-old boy in Karachi. This is the third case of crippling type P1 polio in the country this month. The two earlier cases were detected in Swat valley, where unrest has prevented regular vaccination. The latest detection of polio in a middle class central Karachi neighbourhood has stunned authorities that have convened a special meeting on Friday to discuss ways to contain the disease. "I can confirm detection of type P1 polio virus in an eight-month-old boy in Sadar town," Dr Mazhar Khamisani, project director for Expanded Programme on Immunisation, told AFP. He said that samples were taken from the child on June 10 and sent to the National Institute of Health in Islamabad, adding that the virus was not detected, after which a sample was sent to a World Health Organisation lab in Geneva. "We got the confirmation from WHO Geneva today," Dr Khamisani said, adding that initial investigations showed that the child, who is alive, was regularly vaccinated. The total number of polio cases in Pakistan this year is now 18, officials said. The World Health Organisation recently listed Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan as the only countries in the world where polio is endemic.
